Very good condition. No interior writing or highlighting. Business Start-Up 1 Teacher's Book By Ibbotson, Mark; Stephens, Bryan Book Description Business Start-up is a two-level (CEF level A1/A2) Business English course for adults who need English for their work. Business Start-up takes beginners and false beginners from basic English up to the point where they can start preparing for the BEC Preliminary examination. Level 1 covers competencies from Council of Europe level A1 and leads into A2. The Business Start-up Teacher's Books contain detailed notes on every lesson with added tips and advice on how to manage and extend the course material. Additional communication activities in each lesson offer even more communicative language practice. The Teacher's Book also contains a placement/end of course multiple choice test and progress tests after every three units. The Business Start-up website offers a downloadable list of 'Can-do' statements for every unit based on competencies from the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, allowing students the chance to reflect on what they've learnt and evaluate their own progress. Product Details Paperback: 128 pages Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 Tch edition (February 27, 2006) Language: English ISBN-10: 0521534666 ISBN-13: 978-0521534666 Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.7 inches

Very good condition. No writing. ICRC (Author) The Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 Reference (Paperback) International Committee of the Red Cross Product Details: Paperback, 217 pages English Product Number: 0173/002

No interior writing or highlighting. Some shelfwear. Physics Based Modeling of The Human Face By Igor V. Neverov Book Description Modeling of the human face plays an important role in such applications as computer games, medicine, and special effects for movies. The demand for this area is driven by the ability of the human face to convey emotion and information and by the needs of simulation in the context of facial surgery. Face modeling can be divided into defining the geometrical representation, animating the model, and rendering. It has recently enjoyed considerable progress in the movie industry; in particular the rendering has achieved such level that the face in still images has been made to look indistinguishable from real. However, animation still remains a problem, mainly because of the lack of sound algorithmic theory describing facial motion. Our work addresses this problem, proposing a model and tools for its animation, which both reflect the anatomical control structure and are efficient and robust. We built a highly detailed anatomically accurate model of facial passive tissue, embedded musculature and underlying skeletal structure using volumetric data acquired from a living male subject. The tissues are equipped with a highly nonlinear constitutive model including controllable anisotropic muscle activations based on fiber directions. Building this model required the development of an extensive set of tools that was used to process the Visible Human dataset as well as the MRI and laser scans of a living subject. The model is capable of a fast and robust animation, driven by muscle activations and the kinematic parameters defining the placement of cranium and jaw. To achieve versatile realistic animation requires complex coordinated stimulation of the muscles and control of the kinematic parameters. We propose a solution to this problem by automatically estimating the control parameters from face motion capture marker data. This not only offers an efficient way to drive the model, but also offers a framework for definitive description of facial motion, since our control parameters are anatomically derived, as opposed to phenomenologically learned. Product Details Hard Cover: 132 pages Publisher: ProQuest / UMI (March 17, 2006) Language: English